Embrace Is Not Enough

A happy pink glitter topper for monday.

My base color is OPI The World Is Not Enough. As a huge James Bond fan, I just had to buy most of their Skyfall collection a couple of years back, but I have to be honest, this polish really disappointed me. While it looks quite interesting in the bottle, it seemed to be a color shifting shimmer, it's just plain boring on the nails. Instead of showing a color shift from grey over brown to green, like in the bottle, it's just a very sheer taupe with some glittery sparkles. I used three coats, and as you can see, it's nowhere near opaque. 

To hide the boring base a little, I dabbed on one coat of Orly Embrace. Embrace was part of their breast cancer awareness collection (thus the pink ribbon charm on the bottle), so of course it's pink. It has a clear base and three sizes of pink hex glitters, the smallest of them are holographic. I added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top for a smooth surface.

Edgy Gold

As the year progresses, it's time for another autumnal mani in gold and brown.

My base color is Orly Edgy, a blackened base with lots of golden brown, copper and green flakies. I used three coats for opacity.







For the stamping I used Barry M. Gold Foil and Bundle Monster plate BM-707. As always, I added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Ingenue Muir

After two months of hot, sunny weather, fall has definetely come to central Europe, so it's time to take out the fall colors :-)





I started with three coats of Orly Ingenue, a foil polish shifting from purple to gold, giving it a pink overall look.








For the (very subtle) stamping I used OPI Muir Muir On The Wall and Bundle Monster plate BM-607. As always I finished with one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Fowl Play

Today I have a golden oldie to show you, that was sitting with my untrieds for almost two years: Orly Fowl Play.

 

Fowl Play has a deep plum colored jelly base filled with multichrome flakies shifting from red over orange and green to blue, plus some small blue hexes. I used three thin coats for opacity and added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top to speed up the drying time.

Of course I mattefied it, using H&M Matte Topcoat.

A Rainbow For Anti Homophobia Day

Today's Anti Homophobia Day, so here's my rainbow.





I used six glitter topper over a black base (a England Camelot)

My purple is Alter Ego Nail Enamel Vintner, a clear base filled with small hexes in purple, lilac and hot pink plus lilac microglitter.





















Blue is GlimmerByErica Beneath The Blue (already shown here), a clear base with blue and aqua hexes plus aqua microglitter.






















The green is Orly Mermaid Tale (shown here), a clear base filled with green hexes in various sizes and shades (even some holographics).
















The gold one's by Orly too, Sashay My Way, a clear base with shiny, matte and holographic gold hexes and  bars.


For orange I used Liquid Sky Lacquer Fall In New England (shown here), a clear base filled with small orange and gold hexes plus medium orange, green and purple matte hexes.















My red is Emily de Molly Ruby Soho (shown here),  a clear base filled with red glitters in various sizes and shapes (hexes, circles, bars), some shiny, some mate and some holographic.















One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top provided a smooth finish.

Alter Ego Nail Enamel are available on Etsy and at Storenvy.

Glimmerby Erica polishes are available on Etsy.

Liquid Sky Lacquers are available at Big Cartel, MeiMei's Signatures and Norway Nails.


Emily de Molly polishes are available on Etsy (Australia only), at Llarowe, at Mei Mei's Signatures and at Norway Nails.

Blue Jelly Sandwich

I haven't worn a jelly sandwich in quite some time, so I thought I should change that :-)

I started with two coats of Nfu Oh JS14 (Jelly Syrup Series), a sheer pastel lilac jelly. As you can see, with two coats it was still nowhere near wearable.

Then I added one coat of Orly Spazmatic (Flash Glam FX Collection), a clear base with royal blue hexes plus iridescent blue flakies.

I added another coat of the jelly, another glitter coat and one more coat of the jelly. As a last step, I added one coat of Rica Glossy Glam topcoat.